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Most of the members of this year's crack contingent have entered the meet as well as a number of outsiders. In addition to the regular events there will be an added feature in the 150-yard individual medley...
Worst air accident in Mexican history, the crack-up was the first mishap of any kind in the twelve-year career of Compania Mexicana de Aviaci...
Early last year John Avery Lomax, crack compiler of U. S. folk songs, arrived in Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor...
...number of U. S. corporations which can borrow $75,000,000 at one crack is relatively small, and their names are usually familiar to the average U. S. citizen. No surprise was the fact that Pacific Gas & Electric stepped into the capital market last week for $90,000,000 of refunding money. But when a banking group headed by First Boston Corp. and Mellon Securities Co., Inc. floated a $75,000,000 bond issue for Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates last week, many an investor had to plough through an 85-page prospectus to find out what the company...
...confused with Elizabeth Bowen (The House in Paris), Marjorie Bowen is a versatile English historian, novelist and playwright, whose best-selling novel, General Crack, was written under the name of "George Preedy...